Useless Chargers info, served on a platter

Seattle Seahawks running back Spencer Ware drags San Diego Chargers defensive back Jahleel Addae in to the end zone while scoring a six yard touchdown in the third quarter of an NFL preseason football game Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Seattle Seahawks running back Spencer Ware drags San Diego Chargers defensive back Jahleel Addae in to the end zone while scoring a six yard touchdown in the third quarter of an NFL preseason football game Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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To us would-be Woodwards and Bernsteins, the U-T issues notebooks that bear the following: "NEWS Professional Reporter's Notebook."

We journos are not very smart. Hence the reminder: NEWS.

Got it. But scrawled inside mine, I see a lot of junk. A salvage operation is needed. So, emptying out the notebook, here are "five useless facts about the Chargers."

• Fifteen years have passed since Jahleel Addae's last haircut.

The rookie safety was seven the last time he was clipped but says he's not anti-barber; rather, he's pro-hair. "It gives me my swagger," he says.

• Manti Te'o is hobbled by a foot sprain but lacks not for comfort food.

The 22-year-old who grew up on Oahu says he's enjoyed several Hawaiian meals in San Diego. Even if those cooks quit, Te'o would still make due in the kitchen. In college he got by in South Bend, Ind., which he confirmed is not the Hawaiian food capital of mainland America.

• When home in Louisiana, Brandon Taylor enjoys hunting alligators.

Taylor said he sits on a hunting platform. Then when the time comes-pow.

You can take the strong safety out of the Bayou, but not the Bayou out of the strong safety.

• At Louisiana-Lafayette, Ladarius Green played for a crazy man.

Yes, that's blood running down the forehead of Louisiana Lafayette's strength coach during the team's New Orleans bowl game against San Diego State. The coach, Rusty Whitt, cares not a whit as the blood trickles. And yes, Green says, Whitt is a nutty dude. Soon, in comrade Gehlken's epic story on the second-year Chargers tight end, you can read more about Whitt and the unconventional training methods to which he subjected Green and Ragin' Cajun teammates.

• As a child, King Dunlap fancied himself Junior Seau.

Proof is on one of Dunlap's massive arms, which bears a '55' tattoo honoring the late Chargers great. About the time Seau was leading the Chargers to the Super Bowl, Dunlap was an eight-year-old playing linebacker in Tennessee. Dunlap, 6' 9'' and 330 pounds, outgrew the position but not his admiration for Seau.